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This course explores stereotypes of Naples, which is often depicted in culture as a marginalized body: female, poor, dark-skinned, queer, and disabled. We will study visual and narrative depictions of the city that complicate these commonplaces, with a special focus on Baroque and 21st-c. contexts. Through film, television, painting, sculpture, architecture, street art, maps, narrative fiction, investigative journalism, mythology, and fairy tales, we will devise questions that seek to discern the nuances behind such tropes, with close attention to historical causes and systems of oppression. A range of critical tools from methodologies such as ecocriticism, disability studies, feminist film theory, and postcolonialism will help us identify and rethink cultural and representational biases.